Western cyclone. [volume] (Nicodemus, Kan.) 1886-1887, 1887-01-20


er OF Niles, Mich, committed suicide
Thursday night by shooting.
G. c. Flora OF Campbellsvilie, KY,
has eaten sixty quaiis il thirty days and
is stiIl eating on a wager Of $500 that
he consumes eighty quails in forty
days.
Tie pos-ofice at Blair, Neb., was
broken into Thursday night. the safe
blown open in skiIlful manner and the
contents Iid5d. About 5000 in stamps.
some money and twelve registered
packages for local delivery were taken
The contents Of the packages are not
known. This is a second time in year
that this Office has been robbed, each
time done III the same manner. No
blame can he attached TO the postmis-
tress, as the office is carefully locked by
her, and every precaution taken that
can be. The burglars also blew open
the safe Of Wlseman and McQuarrie's
lumber office, just north of the pOstof-
fee, and secured $12 there. No clue.
The officiating clergymen at Bishop
POttel's funeral at Trinity church, New
York Friday were Bishop Coke, Of
Rochester; B;shop Bsdell, Of Ohio;
Bishop Doane, of Alabama,
and Rev. DR.. Swope and Rev.
DR.. Morgan Dix. The body was inferred
in the rural cemetery at Pougnkeepsie.
The kitchen range IN a hotel at La,
Fayette, Ind, exploded Friday morning,
terrifying the guests, many of whom
rushed into the streets in scaut7 cloth
ing. The cook was fatally burned.
The four young men condemned to
death recently for the outrageous as
sault upon a servant girl, were hanged
at Sidney, n. S. W., Thursday. Two
others, who were to have been executed,
were reprieved.
Mike Brumfeld, colore1, was hanged
by an unknown mob on Saturday night,
at O3yka, Miss.
James e. NOwlln, who was arrested
in connection Of the Goldman murder,
morning made full confession
Ii which he says that he was the only
one connected with the murder and that
the other prisoners nave been d scharoed.
NOwlln says that he killed young Cod
man at 3 o'clock Tuesday morning by
HIM in the back of the neck
with carving knife. The deed was
done in Codman's own stable. Later
in he day lie cut the clothes off the body
chopped the left leg and right arm off
and started with the corpse on his pung
for the country. As a spot in Lexing-
ton Massachusetts,, where the head
was found he dropped the head
in the middle of the road and
then threw the arm out. Nowlin says
ne killed Goldman for his money. Elk
oectjng to secure about $500 when he
only got 1915.
Joseph Perry, a Philadelphia miser
Ind his companion while in q drunken
;tupor were frozen to death last week.
One hundred thousand dollars in money
md securities were found in their room.
Right Hon. Edward Stanhope, at'pres.
mt the colonial secretary, has accepted
The Office Of secretary of war.
Between 3 and o'clock Friday morn.
ing the people living along West Coal
street IN the northwestern section of
Pa, were aroused by
creaking noise and swaying houses, pro-
1uced by cave-in, which took fully
four acres Of that section Of the town,
upon which stand upward of fifty
houses. The greatest alarm prevailed
from O'Clock until after daylight. At
ter the surface sank, houses swayed and
and frightened the people.
Many of them, with children in their
arms, ran III search Of places Of safety,
while men collected their most portable
property and conveyed it from the
doomed district. The surface settled
from two to four feet and damaged
to the extent of $50, 300 to
$4,000. The cavein was caused by tae
of Kohinoor cOllIery which is
located under that portion Of die town.
The town of Upper Marlborough, the
county seat of Prince Georges county,
sd, was about halt burned down Tours
day morning. The loss will NOT exceed
S25, 900.
The Western league OF base b4llis:s
met IN Lincoln, Neb., Saturday evening
under call of the president. There were
present ] II. Threw, of Lincoln, pre>i-
dent; E E. Murphy, of L-avenworth,
Geo. W. Kay, G. W. Shields,
Omaha; VIM. Alexander, S.. Joe; w.
II. Gllsby, Topek4; r Keller, LeAven-
wor h; VIM. McClntock, Denver; A.
N. McKim, Kansas City. Kansas City
aud II sting were admitted 70 the
Western league, completing the mem
bership. Oae hundred and tventy-six
games will be played during the season
that opens April 90 and closes OctoDer
Is, giving sixty-three games to each
town I'D the league. Umpires' salaries
in the league were fixed at $l25 per
month. The league adjourned to meet